Her answer to her first question about what was amazing about babies has stuck with me all day.

The most amazing thing about babies’ minds, she said, is that they learn how to learn:

The human baby is absolutely dynamic in its learning… They learn to learn and they get better at learning.

Later I was reading about meta-cognition, thinking about thinking, knowing about knowing, noticing how our minds work – what some people call mindfulness.

It’s lovely to note that those concepts connect in this way. It’s not just that we think that makes us what we are, its that we think about thinking. Then we can change how we think, to an extent we can re-write our own code, the way our minds work.

That’s what we do when we learn to quiet our minds with meditation, to change how we go through a creative process, train ourselves to react with less anxiety and erode phobias with techniques like cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).